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So it was a day like any other. There was testing in the school this morning, and my duty was to sit near a fire alarm box in the math corridor, which is where my bad school dreams are usually located, but whatever. It wasn't unpleasant. The irony only came later, after the testing and once first period had begun, when there was a power failure in two-thirds of the school and it set off the fire alarms and we were all outside for 45 minutes. Just another ordinary day.

My feet were waaaay better today, not lim-o-zeen status, but not bad. So once I learn to wrap these suckers up myself every day, I'll be okay. Apparently what I'm needing here is some kind of super-duper arch support. I guess when that first podiatrist told me I had the highest arches he'd ever seen, he wasn't just whistling Dixie.

So that's pretty much that, except this book meme that I got from fi. I may or many not have done this before, but let me say once again that for someone who really doesn't like Charles Dickens, I have read a ridiculous amount of his work, more than are listed here. I also have an antique set of his books that were my mother's when she was a kid, but I didn't count them as being on my shelves (although they are.) Here ya go.

The instructions are: Bold what you have read, italicize those you didn't finish, strikethrough the ones you hated, put asterisks next to those you’ve read more than once, and put a cross in front of the books that are on your bookshelf. Underline books that are on your "to read" list.

Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
+*Catch-22
One hundred years of solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi: a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
+*Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveller’s Wife
+The Iliad
+Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
Atlas shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
*The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
+*The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
+*Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes
The God of Small Things
A people’s history of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
+*Slaughterhouse-five
*The Scarlet Letter
+Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
+The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
*The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

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